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7 commentsThe McIntire Recycling Center gets an extra lease on life.
PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
Despite recent cuts to its operating schedule and limits on what it will accept, the McIntire Recycling Center will...

41 commentsThe board met for over an hour at 7:30am and reconvened at 6pm on Wednesday to hammer out settlement terms. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
Amid a succession of public relations nightmares, including the...

104 comments"He certainly was aware that the service contribution existed," Brown said Thursday. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
In its first meeting since its star witness was convicted and jailed for attempted...

56 commentsMinutes before a jury found him guilty of attempted extortion, Richard Wade Kendrick, with family members behind him, waits for the verdict. PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR
A controversial government-backed...

5 commentsDuring a call-in to Coy Barefoot’s radio show on Friday, recently elected County Supe Rodney Thomas(R) was asked if he would support a controversial “flow control” ordinance in conjunction with the...

17 comments“This case is about right and wrong,” says RSWA director Tom Frederick in a recent memo, accusing recycler Peter Van der Linde of "defrauding" the RSWA out of more than "a million dollars in tipping...

16 comments“It is absolutely false that I supported flow control,” says BoS member Ken Boyd, calling it “more than a stretch” to suggest he ever did.
FILE PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
Two weeks after the Rivanna...

16 commentsPeter Van der Linde's Zion Crossroads recycling facility, one of the main reasons the RSWA has experienced a 20 percent drop in revenues. FILE PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
As the Rivanna Solid Waste...

19 comments"It's a legal terrorist tactic," says Peter Van der Linde of the RSWA's decision to use RICO. FILE PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
Just when we thought it couldn'tÃ?Â
"It's a legal terrorist tactic,"...

2 commentsIn presenting the financial picture of the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority to its board Monday May 18, director Tom Frederick said that layoffs are coming because recycling revenues are dropping, and...

12 commentsMonday recycling could end with the new fiscal year, which begins July 1.
PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
With revenues slammed by an ailing economy and a thriving private competitor, the Rivanna Solid Waste...

34 commentsUntold millions in revenue may have been lost here, at Allied Waste's transfer station at Zion Crossroads, between 1998 and 2005. PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
As reported in a recent cover story ["What a...